A tire mold having air venting passages or holes is provided with plastic inserts or plugs for the vent holes along the cavity side of the mold. The inserts are composed of a plastic material having a heat distortion temperature of no less than 275.degree.F at 66 psi in accordance with ASTM D648 and a coefficient of thermal expansion less than 8x10-5in/in/.degree.C.

Apparatus for automatically stacking battery plates and separators is disclosed. Battery plates and separators elements are alternately and automatically combined on a conveyor belt to form sandwiches wherein a plurality of such sandwiches are later assembled for use in battery cells. Prior to combining the elements, the plates and separators are arranged in respective chutes for access by pivotab...

A table utensil is used to cut open a crab leg in a smooth and continuous manner. The utensil includes a handle and a blade with the blade having a pair of prong sections separated by a slot. The prong sections have inwardly facing curved edges, curved in a like direction.

An electrosurgical unit including voltage control circuitry which operates to limit the voltage at the electrosurgical electrodes when the unit is not in coagulation mode. The electrosurgical unit includes sensing circuitry for providing a signal representative of the voltage at the electrosurgical electrodes, a mode setting switch or dial for changing between a cut mode setting and a coagulation ...

This disclosure embodies an apparatus and process for the rapid removal of outer coverings and other unedible portions from food products with minimal loss of or damage to edible portions. The process has proven to be effective in the peeling of fruit and vegetable crops, coring peppers, shelling of legume seed pods, shucking and silking corn, popping corn, skinning onions, shelling of nut crops, ...

This invention relates to a saturated polyester bottle-shaped container and a method of fabricating the same from a material such as polyethylene terephthalate incorporating high transparency and superior mechanical surface strength. The hard coating is formed by the steps of coating an ultraviolet curable coating of methyl methacrylate resin on the surface of the body and irradiating ultraviolet ...

An input/output device for a programmable controller provided separately from said device capable of performing the bidirectional transmission such as taking in the input data and sending out the output data only by connecting the main unit of said controller to said input/output device or devices with two systems of signal line consisting of a serial data conductor and a clock signal conductor.

There is disclosed a system and a method for isolating faults and recovering a distributed system of the type including a plurality of modules to optimized operation. At least some of the modules are active fault recovery modules and include fault detecting means for initializing a fault check routine and sensing faults within the distributed system. Voting means are associated with each active mo...

Each transport device contains at least two drive wheels which are driven at individual speeds VA and VB and which are pivotable by related steering angles alpha and beta . Identical servo-drive units are associated with the drive wheels and their mode of operation and mutual coupling is adapted by switch devices to the steering angles alpha and beta such that the required speed adjustment ...

Composite of rubber and metal reinforcement where the rubber contains borate and a cross-linkable monomer. Cured composite is useful as component for rubber tires, industrial belts and hose.

A friction coupling apparatus contains a plurality of fluid motor actuators circumferentially fixed about a relatively rotatable shaft. Each of the actuators is positioned between a spaced pair of friction rotors fixed to the shaft for rotation therewith. The actuators each contain an annular axially distensible elastomeric air tube, which upon pressurization operates to force pairs of friction me...

An inert, water-immiscible inert organic liquid having gas transport properties, water and a suitable emulsifying agent are formed into a stable gel by emulsifying a mixture of the same, concentrating the emulsion to form a gel phase and a liquid phase, and separating the two phases. The resulting gel can be used as an ointment or cosmetic for skin irritations or wounds, or as a coating in industr...

Expandable styrene acrylonitrile polymer particles are provided which give good resiliency over an extended period of time.

A novel foam composed of closed cells having a specific tensile strength of 150 kg/cm2 or more, a compression recovery of 80% or more and a heat shrinkage of 50% or less, a variation in thickness of foam of less than 50%, a corrugation value of less than 100% and a surface smoothness of less than 2 mm, an average cell diameter of 0.05-3 mm, said foam having a foam density of 0.007-0.10 g/cm3, a va...

An improved polyurethane lacquer for coating an elastomer containing at least one polyfunctional aromatic nitroso compound as an adhesion improver and optionally, lacquer-nonreactive spacer particles.

Polymeric compositions are provided in which perfluoropolyethers have been solubilized in non-fluorinated solvents by combining them with a solubilizing agent such as azotic conjugated compounds, and phosphorylated compounds. Typical of the perfluoropolyethers is +TR Typical of the solubilizing agents is phosphorylated methacryloyloxyhydroxypropylisophthalate. The perfluoropolyet...

An adhesive composition for bonding fibers to a rubber is made of an aqueous dispersion composed mainly of a resorcinol/formaldehyde resin and a rubbery vinylpyridine copolymer latex. Particles of the rubbery vinylpyridine copolymer latex having a weight-average particle size of at least 0.15 micron, provided when the weight-average particle size is less than 0.16 micron, the particles having a pa...

A mechanism for a non-permanent gear meshing comprising a gear arranged on a driving shaft with a feather, between a back driving flange, centering disk, friction lining and front driving flange connected through the centering disk, friction lining and feather again to the driving shaft. The said gear is arranged with a clearance being at least twice so great than the tooth height of the gear. The...

USE OF CLEAR COATINGS BASED ON ORGANIC POLY ISOCYANATES FOR COATING SHEET PRODUCTS BASED ON POLYVINYL CHLORIDE The present invention relates to a process for coating polyvinyl chloride sheet products, optionally containing plasticizers, with clear coatings which can be hardened under the influence of atmospheric moisture and have a viscosity at 23.degree.C of from about 60 to 2500 mPa.s, and which...

A system for recovering data, both prerecorded and user data, from a reflective optical data storage medium, with the further capability of distinguishing data from foreign particulate matter on the data disk. A pair of detectors measures the fraction of light reflected from and transmitted through the data disk and, knowing the fraction of light absorbed by the disk, distinguishes user data from ...